In a new interview, Kevin Lyman of Warped Tour revealed that the tour - now in it's 18th year - will be the site of a new reality show set to air on Fuse.TV in the fall. Lyman said this about it:

. It's done by the guys who--did you ever watch Swamp People? No? It's a reality show, but it's more like educational reality. It's not a Jersey Shore-type exploitative kind of show. It's more like this is how these guys live--it's fun and it's hard work, and shows the dynamics of being on the road.

Lyman also talked positively about the 2012 lineup, noting:

I read something I read the other day. It said that the Vans Warped Tour had the most eclectic lineup this summer. I was really proud of that. [...] Music-wise, there's the Acoustic Basement. So many [punk/rock] artists are recording albums and doing acoustic tours to support those albums, so this is kind of an extension of that. And Chuck Ragan [of the Florida punk band Hot Water Music] is a good friend of mine and he'll be out there for a while. We're supporting his revival tour through the Warped Tour and trying to get younger fans.

Musically, I like majority of the band since I book all the bands on the tour. Big thing for me are the new bands--Dead Sara, Mod Sun, Silver Comet, the Constellations. If you come to Warped Tour and you see bands on the side stages, you'll end up seeing them on the main stage pretty soon.

Swamp People wasn't exploitative? Having seen the show and then having visited Louisiana I can tell you the show was nothing like my experience. Even touring the swamp with a boat driver who caught alligator in season and helped collect their eggs in the off season I was never given the image that Swamp People gave. Sure it wasn't "People banging people, getting drunk and punching women" like Jersey Shore but it certainly seemed to focus more on the backwoodsy, southerner looking fer "Gay-tor-zilla!" than the people I seemed to encounter (who was surprisingly knowledgeable about the ecosystem of the swamp and conservation as a whole).

Diverse was the first year I went, 2004. They had the punk staples like NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, Guttermouth, while catering to the newer emo/post-hardcore trend with From First To Last, Taking Back Sunday & The Bled. Then there was the pop-punk/radio-friendly bands like My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy, and Yellowcard to draw in the kids, and then ska with The Aquabats, Arrogant SoB's and Pepper. They even had budding bands like Rise Against and Avenged Sevenfold.

Fuck, looking at the 2004 lineup makes me wish I had went by myself and not with my teenybopper high school friends who only wanted to see the pop-punk radio bands. I'm going to go ahead and 2004 was Warped's best year.

In the summer of 2004 Guttermouth embarked on the Vans Warped Tour, playing on the Volcom side stage. In keeping with their reputation for outrageous and offensive behavior, Adkins would often openly insult other acts from onstage, declaring that bands such as Yellowcard and My Chemical Romance cared more about their fashionable clothing and popularity than about the quality of their music. The band members also mocked what they saw as an uninformed political display of many bands on the tour by selling t-shirts and displaying banners that jokingly proclaimed support for President George W. Bush (many of the bands and media booths supported an anti-Republican stance in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election). After several weeks on the tour Guttermouth was "politely" asked to leave, fueling rumors that other performers had petitioned to have them ejected.[3] Eventually, however, Adkins issued a statement apologizing to Warped Tour manager Kevin Lyman and admitting that the band had left the tour voluntarily, due in part to his distaste for the political atmosphere surrounding it.[4]

Seems fairly common for 'working bands' to get in trouble for any sort of interaction with main stage types.

I heard last year that the Blacklist Royals nearly got in a bunch of shit with the tour because one of those eye-liner, whining, I want to be tough metalcore bands got pissed that their merch table was too close and was infringing on their space or something.

Also, my dad was a roadie for major tours when I was a kid, I grew up visiting him on the road. He'll laugh his ass off when he hears about this.